After all the parties last weekend, and an extra day of because of queens day. Every year we celebrate Queens day. This year it is a very special one, because the Queen abdicates and her son Willem Alexander becomes the new King of the Netherlands.
I have some time to tangle so I started with the Zendala template of Erin. I already played with the new pattern Yew-Dee, and when I opened Erins post I knew right away that the template was just good for using this wonderful pattern. So I started with the Yew-Dee edge, and the other tangles just fitted into the other spaces. So tada... here is my finished Zendala.

After a lot of tangling this Easterweekend, I made the Diva Challenge today. It is the first monday of the month, so the challenge is a Use My Tangle challenge. This time we had to use Tuxedo from LeeAnn. A great tangle with lots of possibilties. After all I didn't know what to do. Than I thought I place it on an orb, and so I did......

This week I hardly had time to tangle. Monday I had to go with my daughter to the hospital for some investigations she has to do every year. The day after was her 13th birthday. Yes she is becoming a real little lady. So the presents had to wrapped and she was really happy tuesday. And today my youngest son had his last day at highschool. In 2 weeks he has his examn and after that he's going to study technical engeneering. Tonight he has his Prom. After 2 sunny days, today the weather is grey and rainy, so I hope it will be dry when he arrives at the castle where he has his prom. I hope to post some pictures of that later on.
Tomorrow another birthday at our home. Our twin will be 20 tomorrow. And we will celebrate the birthday of all three for our family.

So last night I did a quick tile on the earth day challenge. It was a hard one for me. I didn't know what to do, so I tried do something like journaling. I like these pieces of art on the web, but I have never tried something of that kind. So I divided my tile in 4 pieces and wrote the word EARTH 4 times, and tangled the left spaces with very earth-minded subjects as flowers, snowflakes, rain, grass.

This week, I didn't know what to do with Erins template. So I started to print the largest version, and trace it to my drawing paper. After that I looked at it but still I didn't have an AHA moment. I put it aside and went for a walk with our dog. After dinner, I tried again. I started to put some extra lines at the template, and of course I removed some other lines. And started with the star in the middle of the template. When I was tangling I saw a starfish figure coming out of the template, and so I did some circles on the outside to create some tentacles looking like a starfish octupus. After that I finished the zendala really quick. And I am very satisfied with the result, and certainly because I had so much trouble with this template.

This week Laura had a challenge about starts. I didn't know what to do so I took her advice to surf on the web for pictures of starts, and use that as model for my drawing. I found a beautiful star. I love optical illusions so this one was just my thing. I draw it and as you al know the tangles around the star floated out of my pen when I was working. Thats how the tangle process works, once you have a start the rest is easy. I loved this challenge and had a lot of fun making my piece of art.

Again a very nice template. Unfortunately I had no time to tangle this weekend. So I had finished the zendala monday evening. I wanted it to post today, because it is my day off, butt several things happened And I still hadn't post it. So now just before I have to cook dinner I take some minutes to post it, because tonight I'm going to school for my illustrator lessons.

After some technical problems Laura could post her new challenge. A very nice one. I don't love squares en straight right spaces, but this challenge where we had to use a square in a square in a square .... as a string, stole my heart right away. The challenge fits to the latest posts of Maria and Rick where they explain how to use zentangle to create beautiful borders and frames. I love that posts, so this challenge is just what I needed this week. Today I made 2 square in square string tiles. One black and white, and one in color. I had a lot of fun doing this challenge. Also I made a birthday card with zentangle art. It was fun to do, and it is ready to sent.

This weeks template is one with lots of circles. Yes I love that. Erin told us she doesn't like round zendalas with lots of circles. Strrrrange..... For me circle and round space are the sumum to tangle on. I love those spaces. Because you can tangle so beautiful with flowers on these spaces. As an extra challenge we had to do hollibaugh as string on top of the template to mess up the circles and bring some chaos into the template. That was the difficult part form me. I looked at Erins drawing. I don't know if this is what Erin meant, but this is what I made of it. Hope you all like it.Happy tangling and have a great weekend.....